One of the amazing benefits of a NAMAS membership is “Ask The Expert”. For this “Take”, I’m going to share one of the questions submitted to us by a NAMAS member, Carol, about emergency room leveling related around chest pain and high complexity. So, Carol writes that the data column for most of their patients…
July 21, 2023 | By Scott Kraft, CPMA, CPC Whenever I audit charts under the 2021 E/M Documentation Guidelines, which now apply in all places of service, I like to start by reviewing the first and third columns. The first column is Number and Complexity of the Presenting Problem, and the third column is…
July 7, 2023 | By Victoria Moll, CPC, COC, CPMA, CRC, CPFC, CPRC, AAPC Approved Instructor, Fellow CEO, Contempo Coding It’s a frequent grievance heard in the healthcare sphere – patients walk in for their “no-cost” annual exam only to walk out with a bill for a separate office visit due to an existing…
June 30, 2023 | By Sonal Patel, CPMA, CPC, CMC, ICDCM One of my favorite childhood memories includes learning how to paint. Messy and fun, fingerpainting and potato printing held my attention for years. As I got a little older, I marveled at how I could create masterpieces by using the “paint by numbers”…
June 9, 2023 | By Pam Vanderbilt, CPC, CPMA, CPPM, CPC-I, CEMC, CDEO, CPB, CFPC, CRC, CPEDC, CEMA President, Knowledge Tree Billing, Inc. You may be thinking, “Really, Pam? Are we talking about modifier 25 again?!?” Yes! Considering the recent uproar caused by one payer’s plan to implement a policy requiring prepayment review of…